Soshite chichi ni naru
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Ryoata is an architect obsessed by professional success, and with his young wife and 6-yaer-old son forms an ideal family. All his certitudes are shattered which the hospital where their child was born announces to them that two children were swapped at birth: the boy he has raised is not his and their biological son has grown up in a more modest environment…
With : Fukuyama Masaharu, Ono Machiko, Maki Yoko, Lily Franky
Screenplay : Hirokazu Kore-eda
Editing : Hirokazu Kore-eda
Sound : Yutaka Tsurumaki
Music : Takeshi Matsubara, Junichi Matsumoto, Takashi Mori
Image : Mikiya Takimoto
Screenplay : Hirokazu Kore-eda
Editing : Hirokazu Kore-eda
Sound : Yutaka Tsurumaki
Music : Takeshi Matsubara, Junichi Matsumoto, Takashi Mori
Image : Mikiya Takimoto
Production : Amuse, Fuji Television Network, GAGA
Distribution: Le Pacte
Distribution: Le Pacte
A worthy heir to Ozu, Hirokazu Kore-eda confirms with each film he makes his taste for the theme of childhood. He explores the moment when a man feels to have become a father since he himself became one. It is this question which gave him the idea for Soshite chichi ni naru (Like Father, Like Son). Although the subject is the same as La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille (Life is a Long Quiet River), his extremely subtle treatment was a surprise to many, including Serge Kaganski in Les Inrocks: “Kore-eda approaches this constellation of serious social questions with an infinite amount of tact, delicacy, subtlety, as if he managed to build a matchstick cathedral out of big logs”.